Chapter 383: Soochow's Maginot Line.
This landing battle on the riverside was at noon the next day at night. At noon the next day, the Qin army finally completely occupied the entire shore.
The Wu navy, which was blocking the road, was completely defeated. Before the battle, Zhou Yu had already issued an order that if he was defeated, he would not be allowed to return to the city. All the soldiers fled along the small roads by the river. To put it bluntly, this is to let these defeated soldiers die on their own.
This battle was very fierce. The 80,000 Qin troops defeated more than 100,000 Eastern Wu troops in one battle. After this battle, the Eastern Wu navy was completely destroyed and there was no qualification to compete with the Qin army.
The battle was very fierce, and the casualties of the Qin army sailors were also very tragic. More than 10,000 people died, and the combined minor and serious injuries were more than 30,000 wounded soldiers. It can be said that almost half of the Qin army soldiers who participated in the landing this time were wounded.
"Push forward along the coast and set up camp in Shili. Three trenches must be dug in front of the village, and the deer antlers must be doubled down. The scouts must put them down in Chanling City." Zheng Chenggong ordered the soldiers under his command.
At this time, it can be said that the Qin army was the most exhausted. After fighting a night of battle, the Qin army soldiers were exhausted. Moreover, most of the soldiers were still wounded.
Zheng Chenggong's arrangement was because he was afraid that the Wu army would take the opportunity to counterattack them. Zheng Chenggong's behavior was to be careful and not make any mistakes.
The front camp of the Qin army.
"Report..."
"Grandmaster, the King of Qin is here." Zheng Chenggong was commanding his soldiers to set up camp when he heard soldiers coming to report.
After a moment, Li Chen brought a group of generals from the army. The leader was the army commander Chen Qingzhi, and in the future, there were Cheng Yaojin, Yuwen Chengdu, Zhao Yun, Pei Yuanqing and other generals.
"Congratulations to the Grand Governor, congratulations to the Grand Governor."
"Your navy successfully landed overnight, which made great contributions to the King of Qin." Military advisor Jia Xu said to Chen Qingzhi with a smile.
When fighting Jiangdong, it is best to fight quickly. If you want to fight quickly, you need to use many strange tricks, sinister tricks and poisonous tricks.
Liu Bowen thought that he was inferior to Jia Xu in using these strategies, so he took the initiative to give up the position of the front-line military advisor to Jia Xu, and returned to the rear to be responsible for transporting food and grass.
"The military advisor was joking. My navy was just a temporary achievement."
"Then the army will seize Chanling and then go straight to Jiangdong. This is an unparalleled achievement." Zheng Chenggong said modestly.
"The Grand Commander's words are wrong. If the navy does not seize the river and land, how can our army seize the city and capture the village?" Chen Qingzhi also said.
In the first half of the battle against Wu, the battle between Fankou and Jiudao Water Village that broke through Zhou Yu, and now the battle between crossing Liangjiangkou and landing and rushing to the beach. The navy was fighting in several consecutive battles, and the army had been watching the fun in the dry village on the shore.
Now, the water battle in the first half has ended, and the land battle in the second half is the time for the Army to perform.
For a moment, both the navy generals and the army generals seemed very happy, and at this moment, they even started to buzz with each other.
"Let the brothers of the navy go to the rear to rest, and the army is equipped to fight on the shore."
"Military advisor, let's go to Chanling City first and think about how to break the city." Li Chen said to Jia Xu.
After Li Chen's order, Zheng Chenggong began to order his soldiers to transport the wounded soldiers to the Army's dry village first, and then when he came back, he would pull up the army's soldiers. In this way, it was equivalent to the two sides having exchanged positions.
You know, this is the dispatch of hundreds of thousands of troops, and it is impossible to complete the dispatch without a day or two.
Li Chen personally brought a group of generals from the army to the city of Chanling. As the saying goes, only by knowing yourself and others can you be invincible. If you want to capture this city of Chanling, you must first understand the layout of Chanling.
Although Chanling City is not big, the city wall is very solid. The entire city is built with huge stones, and the city wall is about three meters away. Li Chen guessed that such a city wall would be difficult to shake if the shells hit the city wall.
Moreover, Zhou Yu is not a loss this time, he is the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Wu. He has learned from his mistakes. After suffering from the Qin army's good artillery, he has now set up a "sunshade" on the city wall.
Zhou Yu ordered people to build a shed with bamboo, wood and other objects on the wall of Chanling City. This is like adding a roof to the city wall. If the Qin army was bombarding it with cannons.
It will be difficult for these cannons to hit the city wall, but will hit the roof first. The roof is three layers of sandwich. The innermost layer is wood or bamboo, the middle is a layer of iron, and the uppermost layer is covered with a thick layer of mud.
In order to build this shed that could block the Qin army's artillery, Zhou Yu could be said to have taken great pains to almost exhaust the power of Jiangdong's craftsmen. Only then did the Qin army completely repair the object before the Qin army attacked.
Even if the Qin army's artillery was powerful, he would never be able to penetrate the iron sheet. With this shed that could block the Qin army's artillery fire, the Qin army would not be able to take advantage of the artillery. At that time, the Qin army was thinking of siege, so they would have to pile up their lives.
In addition to this artillery shed, Zhou Yu also built many corner towers and border towns outside Chanling City. These corner towers formed a protruding Chanling City, and could shoot and attack the Qin army from all directions with bows and arrows.
Even Zhou Yu widened the outermost moat by two or three zhang. Now, it is not an easy task to cross the moat of five or six zhang.
Let me put it this way, Chanling City is the Magino defense line built by Zhou Yu for the Eastern Wu. The German army was able to bypass the Magino defense line built by France, but Li Chen had to fight against the Magino defense line of the Eastern Wu.
There are many mountains and rivers in Jiangdong, and Chanling City is the only way to attack. Li Chen could not take a detour, and there was no road near Chanling that could accommodate the entry and exit of the army. Taking a small path would inevitably lead to the division of troops. The Qin army landed on land and fought, and once the division of troops would be defeated.
"Military advisor, this Chanling City is not easy to fight!" Li Chen sighed and said to Jia Xu.
Unexpectedly, Jia Xu was not panicked at all, and even had a smile in the corner of his eyes.
"Ha ha!"
"Don't worry about Qin King, I can break this Chanling City in three days." Jia Xu said with a loud smile.
"Oh! The military advisor has a plan to defeat the enemy?" Li Chen asked Jia Xu.
"There are naturally a strategy to break the city, and you can break the city without aborting a soldier. However, this plan cannot be told to the King of Qin, and it will not work."
"Don't ask, King Qin, after three days, you will get all the Chanling." Jia Xu said with a smile.
Chapter completed!